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Methods in Motion: The magpie
Society, Politics & Law

Methods in Motion: The magpie

...work finding a natural affinity with the strand of International Relations (IR) that drew upon social constructivism, and with it an attendant focus on how issues of culture and identity affect relations between states. For my own work, however, I wanted to delve deeper. I was not, and am still not really guided by the International Relations scholar’s desire for...
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Article 5 mins
Climate change is triple risk to Europe
Nature & Environment

Climate change is triple risk to Europe

...work on England’s River Parrett in the 2014 floods.] Emergency pumps at work on the River Parrett in the 2014 floods. Researchers have just issued three separate climate warnings to the citizens of Europe on the same day, in three different journals – a triple risk salvo. One group warns that, if humans go on burning fossil fuels at an ever-increasing rate, heatwave...
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The restless Universe
Science, Maths & Technology

The restless Universe

...work out how long it has taken to fall. Mathematics provides a natural medium for rational argument. Given an equation that relates various quantities, the rules of mathematics allow that equation to be re-expressed in a number of different but logically equivalent ways, all of which are valid if the original equation was valid. Given two equations, mathematical reasoning...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...working together to understand migration, participation, citizenship and Belonging...The 2019 ‘Who Are We?’ project took place for the third year at the Tate Modern and brought together academics and artists to explore migration, participation, citizenship and belonging through installations, symposia, and participatory workshops. Academics and artists explored living...
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Article 15 mins
Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction
Nature & Environment

Joe Smith - Earth In Vision Introduction

...working in entirely new ways with their media. I think that we hope that a whole range of people will find this material useful. Of course we, as scholars, have found it fantastically interesting, historians, geographers, environmental researchers as we are, but we’re also really confident that teachers and learners in schools and universities are going to draw on this...
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Video 12 mins
Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats
Society, Politics & Law

Demolishing Pasts, Uncertain Futures:The Symbolism of Glasgow’s Red Road Flats

...working class Glaswegians have been subjected to large-scale displacement, often termed ‘decanting’, through slum clearance; huge numbers of people were moved across the city throughout the inter-war and post-war periods and – in increasing numbers after 1945 - beyond the city boundaries. Long established working class communities were broken-up, a shared sense of...
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Article 15 mins
Film and society
History & The Arts

Film and society

...working-class life in the North East while other groups appeared like The London Film-Makers Co-operative, as well as co-ops with more specific agendas, for example, the London Women’s Film Co-op and black and Asian workshops such as Sankofa. Many of these have disappeared but there still remains the Lux. Many mainstream directors emerged from these, and while some,...
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Article 10 mins
Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music
History & The Arts

Listen Up! Developing an appreciation of music

...working at all levels of music education would be out of work if it didn't! From my own experience I can say without hesitation that understanding how music works, learning how it's put together, can indeed enrich the listening experience and make one fully appreciate the finer details of what makes music 'tick'. I'm going to look at different ways of encouraging you to...
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